Tag Archive for: Music

Soundcloud survives money scare

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New investment saves music platform

 

Over the past weeks the future for the music app Soundcloud has been uncertain, but after a £135 million investment it seems the music platform has a bright future.

Soundcloud is popular with emerging music artists and it faced closure faced closure if the new funding was not approved by Friday.

Concerned users had been backing up their Soundcloud uploads, worried the site would go offline.

After the major investment, Alexander Ljung, the company’s chairman said that ‘Soundcloud is here to stay’.

Chance the Rapper who is one of the highest profiled users has also been very vocal in supporting Soundcloud.  

In September, acquisition talks with Spotify failed to materialise and although the company is to make some major cutbacks in the upcoming months it’s clear that Soundcloud is popular with the musical community and it’s ‘here to stay’.

Episode 245 Major KEYone!

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Music composing robot!

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The Shimon robot has learned organically how to play music! As well as being incredibly cool, this robot goes some way to explaining how artificial intelligence can be creative!

Initially the robot had to learn more than 5,000 songs, 2 million motifs & rifs, it’s from this information that the Shimon learned how to compose music by using deep learning techniques to create two 30 second pieces of original pieces.

Researchers at Georgia Tech say that the music that the Shimon creates are a mix between jazz & classical, describing it as ‘soothing’ As well as utilizing deep learning the Shimon also uses a camera on its head to detect which notes to play.

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Spotify QR Codes

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Another tech company is stealing Snapchat’s thunder and is utilizing QR codes and their shareability.

Spotify are said to be letting you use QR Codes to share songs with your buddies.

To pull up a “Spotify Code” just toggle the share function by tapping the three dots located at the top right hand screen of a song. Hit SHARE and you’ll see a code which is uniquely disguised as an audio waveform, get your buddy to tap the camera icon to the right of the search bar within Spotify and aim at that waveform.

BOOM.

The song will start playing right away.

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To download Spotify please click here Apple / Android

 

Lucky Voice

Lucky Voice Karaoke Kit

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Nothing to plug in, nothing to install, just press play and sing along. You can use it on your laptop, play it from your tablet, or sing from your phone.

One account for your PC, Mac, iPad & iPhone.

Remote control

Full screen in HD

Includes thousands of songs, various different playlists and genres including; Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B, Musicals and many more. Post and share online via social media

Also Lucky Voice have their own ‘ultimate private karaoke experiences’ where you can hire a room around Great Britain including; London, Cardiff, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Brighton and even Dubai.

 

“Possibly the most fun you’ll ever have at home”
“The best karaoke system in the world”

 

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To buy your own Lucky Voice Karaoke Kit please click here!

 

Sonos Play 5

Sonos Play:5

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We killed time with a MASSIVE Speaker this week. The beautiful Sonos PLAY:5

  • Fills a large room with pure, brilliant sound.
  • Bold. Pure. Dynamic. Intense. With deep bass that packs a punch.
  • Uncompromised sound whether vertical or horizontal.
  • Convenient, ultra-responsive top panel touch controls.
  • Line-in. Plug in any device you want.

Attention obsessive audiophiles and hard-core music lovers. PLAY:5 is your speaker. It’s our biggest and best-sounding. So whether you’ve got a big room to fill with music or a discerning ear for divine sound, we’ve got you covered.

You’ll hear each separate instrument, voice, and sonic detail in all its glory. Six Class-D amplifiers with six dedicated speaker drivers deliver crystal clear, rich, deep, stereophonic sound with zero distortion. So go ahead and crank up the volume.

Thanks to three mighty woofers and a completely sealed architecture, PLAY:5 delivers big, precise bass response without reverb or echoes.

CREDIT:Sonos.com

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Doritos Playing Music?

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Episode 224 UAV Forecast

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Spotify Hardware?

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Spotify, the world’s most popular music streaming device may be jumping into the world of hardware. According to job postings, reveal a handful of openings that make hint towards designing and selling hardware. Stating that the new employee would

“deliver hardware directly from Spotify to existing and new customers……a category defining product akin to Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo, and Snap Spectacles.”

There are a host of other job listings that hint towards new hardware, most notably  ‘Voice’ and ‘Language’ team listings but within those listings they aren’t exclusive to working with external companies like Amazon/Google, assuming to make Spotify work better on Alexa/Google Home, but to working in house.

What can Spotify be working on?

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Episode 198 Lucy Hedges Part 2

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